Generalized Translinear Circuit Principle

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 1098-1102

  Seevinck, Evert ^a   Wiegerink, Remco J ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, NONLINEAR; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOS;

MOS CIRCUITS; TRANSLINEAR CIRCUITS;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 0026206117     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.90062     Document Type: Article

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